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Bike ride from Brighton to Ditchling Beacon, Plumpton & Lewes
Published on 2012-04-17 16:02:00
So this was my third big bike ride as part of my training for Brighton to Paris, > read more
Cycling Brighton to Paris for local charity Audioactive
Published on 2012-04-12 02:37:00
Many of you saw me get into the whole marathon thing last year, with a half in Brighton and a full one in Berlin, both for charity. Well this year, I'm shaking things up a bit and I'm throwing myself into a new challenge: a massive cycle ride from Brighton to Paris with a group of 5 other people. > read more
What can I make with coconut oil?
Published on 2012-03-09 10:13:00
When you're looking for recipes that are not part of a more mainstream diet, such as the BBC Food, Delia or Jamie Oliver type of fare, you quickly begin to feel like you're exploring a strange and foreign land. Websites that look they've been built before Web 2.0 and forums whose entries date from 2005. I feel like I've entered some weird food cult, a society for people with odd and unusual cooking habits: vegans, fruitarians, raw diet, Atkins, Weight Watchers, detoxers, healthy eaters and fuss [..] > read more
Break from detox for birthday drinks at Sticky Mike's Frog Bar and other excuses
Published on 2012-03-08 18:11:00
Bar staff serving up shots, Sticky Mike's Frog Bar, Brighton, 2012. Photo by Eliot Gill My weekend off was largely understandable. From Thursday night to Monday evening, I was officially off the detox. My birthday drinks, farewell to Nadege and that handbag auction were all good reasons to drink and be merry. See that photo above; it accounts for a lot. This week: I spent Tuesday this week back on the detox, followed by a Wednesday where I wasn't because it was writers group and the rule of wri [..] > read more
End of Detox trial
Published on 2012-03-03 11:01:00
Right, so in the past week I managed to last for four whole days of what is, from what I'm learning, one of the toughest detoxes to undertake. It was a single glass of premeditated prosecco that tipped the regime. I knew that my trial was just a 'trial', what with Thursday's handbag auction at a local cafe and my birthday drinks on Friday so no serious guilt about my boozy diversion. What have I learned from my trial? 1) Detoxing is not easy. I've spent the week largely feeling dizzy, a bit s [..] > read more
Day 2 of Detox Trial (read: Detox Hell)
Published on 2012-02-28 17:25:00
Today was painful, in a word. I was woken up by the worst headache and memories of creepy dreams. In the night, I dreamt about a woman who went out with a man who kidnapped her and kept having reconstructive surgery to his face to keep her interested in him. Only he was hideous. He was big, ginger and had acne scarred cheeks. The surgery did little to make him attractive, only continuously change the way he looked, in differing unattractive ways. It was a struggle to walk to work. I was dizzy a [..] > read more
Detox: looking at the other end of the pint glass
Published on 2012-02-27 15:09:00
The sun setting. I just liked this photo. Not sure it's meant to be metaphorical or what. You tell me. http://www.onbrightsky.co.uk/pics/14Sunset-Brighton-Beach.jpg Just had my 37th birthday yesterday. It's not a significant milestone; and yet, when I woke up this morning, full of that sweaty, slightly paranoid half regret and half concern that you might have done something stupid, I knew exactly what I needed to do. Detox. All the way and now. I know I'm always slipping in and out some heal [..] > read more
Berlin Marathon 2011
Published on 2011-12-14 15:55:00
I did it - the Berlin Marathon! It took me 5 hours 45 minutes, at a leisurely pace, including stopping for toilets, free massage and loads of free refreshments. I ran with two other English people, one my mate Kat and another woman called Anne who we met in the toilet queue before the race started. Running the marathon was honestly one of the most fun I'd had in ages. A few days before, Kat and I went to the expo at Tempelhoff Airport, and there I met a couple, who joined me at the outdoor picni [..] > read more
Flash-lit Fiction: Brighton Digital Festival 2011
Published on 2011-08-27 07:05:00
I've been looking forward to doing a night with Tara Gould (Short Fuse/Story Studio) for some time. Tim and I met her in 2009, and later that year, she started helping me host on Writers Hub for Reverb. Those were fun days. Radio Reverb's a great station, but doing a one-hour monthly show that's not music-based takes a lot of time and energy to coordinate and plan. I can't remember how we got the idea of the slam, but I'd been floating this idea to various writing people and we seized the oppor [..] > read more
Training for Berlin Marathon
Published on 2011-07-23 13:19:00
So, quite a few people have probably heard that I'm training to run my first marathon. My first is the Berlin Marathon, deemed the flattest course of all marathons, and with it being in my favorite month of the year, September, I was taken with the idea of a new challenge, running through the city's beautiful parks and downtown.Tomorrow will be the end of week 4 of my training. My optimism and excitement about doing the training and then actually completing the marathon has wavered wildly. From [..] > read more
Tip from charles in charge
Published on 2011-06-26 11:54:00
www.simplynoise.com He recommends brown noise, says its white noise with the high end cut out. I'm going to check it out."Simply noise will sort all your sound problems out." > read more
Marathon training starts tomorrow: sweatbands
Published on 2011-05-31 17:47:00
Everyone thought I was being really '80s when I wrote on Facebook that 'I was shopping for headbands'. How wrong could they be? Sweatbands are the new portable hand fan, the newSo I've been looking for headbands, on and off, for about three days. It' > read more
Old habits - a 425 word short story
Published on 2011-01-19 03:01:00
Here's a piece of flash fiction that I wrote just before Christmas. It was inspired by a 425 word writing competition run by Viva Lewes - thanks to Tara from Short Fuse (now Story Salon) for flagging it up!Brighton author & poet L > read more
Old books make light reading
Published on 2011-01-18 16:23:00
" 'There are three things that I like,' Amanda exclaimed upon awakening from her first long trance. 'These are: the butterfly, the cactus and the Infinite Goof.'Later she amended the list to include mushrooms and motorcycles.While strolling through h > read more
Day 1 of detox
Published on 2011-01-03 18:23:00
Just a short post to say that I, like 90% of the rest of the country, am embarking on a seriously hardcore detox.For anyone who knows me, the last time I detoxed from anything was back in January 2005, and I managed to ween myself off from alcohol fo > read more
Happy new year 2011
Published on 2011-01-01 11:39:00
I've been acutely aware that I haven't written a blog post in over a year. The reason? 2010 was a massively busy year.In April I moved house, once again, moving into a flat in the centre of town, with beautiful views of the sea. In May, we ran o > read more
Couch surfing
Published on 2009-12-09 11:53:00
Ways to spend your time when you're off work with a cold or flu. 1) Read a book and realise why you had that stack of books by the foot of your bed for so long, but you never had time to read. Realise that you actually have good taste, and know that > read more
myPublicServices Conference, London, 26 November 2009
Published on 2009-11-28 07:19:00
On Thursday morning, Mark from SCIP and I took the 7.44am train up to Victoria for the myPublicServices conference. The conference was looking at how digital media could and is changing the face of public service delivery: via twitter, blogging, > read more
A following, non-writing and a small tribute to Charlie Jordan
Published on 2009-09-24 17:12:00
A group of beasts from http://www.supermundane.com/It's an evening of gentle leisure. That's as much as I can cope with today. First day back at work after a holiday. It wasn't particularly straining, but the plodding of 9-5 work wears me down more t > read more
Trash Menagerie (the site I write for) has been nominated !! Votes in !!
Published on 2009-08-15 06:46:00
News flash - the site that I write for, Trash Menagerie, has nominated by Dazed Digital, as one of the top 15 music blogs in the world. We're all quite chuffed at the nomination; needless to say, we're wetting ourselves that we might actually win.Ne > read more
Breaking Up - again
Published on 2009-07-25 04:21:00
It's Saturday and I'm sitting here in my pajamas and a dressing gown, drinking black coffee and eating Bombay mix. Across the table are about six books, which include it's a breakup not a breakdown and I can mend your broken heart. The residue of tha > read more
Menace to society: kids hanging out
Published on 2009-01-24 11:16:00
I'm a trustee of a local young people charity called Audioactive and we were recently revisiting our PEST analysis, which is in exercise in looking at political, social, economic and technological factors that can impact on your organisation and its > read more